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Status published
Medium
CVE-2008-4571
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LiveSearch module in Plone...
Vulnerability Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LiveSearch module in Plone before 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field for search results, as demonstrated using the onerror Javascript even in an IMG tag.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.1_rc, 2.5.4, 2.5_beta1, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 15th, 2008
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
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Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.